Jacob Wilson broke a seventh-inning tie with a double, Carlos Cortes hit his third home run in two days and the Athletics dealt the Cincinnati Reds’ postseason hopes another blow with an 11-5 triumph Saturday night in West Sacramento, Calif.

Nick Kurtz chipped in with a late grand slam and Brent Rooker also homered for the A’s (69-80), who got four innings of shutout ball from four relievers after starter Luis Severino left a 5-5 game after the fifth.

Will Benson and Tyler Stephenson had home runs for the Reds (74-74), who gained no ground in the National League wild-card race despite losses by the two teams immediately ahead of them — the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants. The Reds also lost the series opener to the A’s on Friday night, 3-0.

After each team had a two- and a three-run uprising within the first four innings, the teams were deadlocked at 5-5 until Shea Langeliers led off the seventh with a double off Nick Martinez (10-13) and Wilson greeted Graham Ashcraft three batters later with his go-ahead double.

Kurtz’s grand slam, the second of his rookie campaign, blew the game open in a five-run eighth that also included an RBI single by Lawrence Butler. Kurtz’s homer was his 31st of the season.

The homers by Benson in the second, his 11th of the season, and Stephenson in the fourth, also his 11th, accounted for all the Cincinnati scoring. Benson’s homer gave the Reds a 2-0 lead; Stephenson’s three-run blast created the 5-5 tie.

In between, Rooker hit his 28th homer, a solo shot, and Cortes added his fourth, a two-RBI blast, in a three-run second inning that gave the A’s a 3-2 lead.

Wilson’s first of two doubles capped a two-run third that ended Hunter Greene’s night after just 2 1/3 innings. He was charged with five runs on four hits, with four walks and three strikeouts.

Severino got through five innings, during which he also allowed five runs. He served up six hits and two walks, with two strikeouts.

Brady Basso (1-0), who threw a scoreless seventh, was credited with the win.

Cortes, Rooker, Butler and Darell Hernaiz joined Wilson with two hits each for the A’s, who totaled 12 hits, half of which went for extra bases. Langeliers scored three runs, while Butler and Hernaiz scored twice apiece.

Sal Stewart collected three singles for the Reds, who got only two hits off the Oakland bullpen over the final four innings. Stephenson finished with two hits and scored twice in Cincinnati’s 11th loss in its last 17 games.

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Bryan Woo posted his American League-leading 21st quality start of the season and struck out a career-high 13 batters as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels 5-3 on Saturday night.

J.P. Crawford homered as the Mariners (81-68) won their eighth in a row to remain tied with Houston atop the AL West and two games ahead of Texas for the league’s third and final wild-card berth.

Jo Adell and Taylor Ward went deep for the Angels (69-80), who lost their third in a row.

Woo (14-7) pitched six innings and gave up two runs on three hits with one walk. The right-hander retired the final 13 batters he faced.

Luke Jackson, Caleb Ferguson and Matt Brash each pitched an inning of relief to close out the victory. Brash earned his fourth save of the season despite allowing Ward’s leadoff homer — the first earned run surrendered by Seattle’s bullpen during its winning streak.

The Mariners took the lead in the bottom of the first. With one out, Cal Raleigh was hit by a pitch and Julio Rodriguez doubled to left. Jorge Polanco drove in both runners with a double into the right field corner.

The Angels responded in the second. Adell led off with a homer to left-center field. Christian Moore drew a walk and, with two outs, Sebastian Rivero and Bryce Teodosio lined singles to right, the latter tying the score at 2-2. Woo fanned Mike Trout to end the inning and didn’t allow another baserunner.

The Mariners regained the lead on Crawford’s solo shot to right-center off rookie left-hander Mitch Farris (1-1) with two outs in the fourth.

Farris, making just his third start, was charged with five runs on five hits over four-plus innings, with four walks and seven strikeouts.

Raleigh led off the fifth with a bloop single to center and Rodriguez and Polanco walked to load the bases with no outs. The Angels brought in Chase Silseth, who caught Eugenio Suarez looking at a called third strike for the first out. Josh Naylor fouled off eight straight pitches, seven with two strikes, before taking a pitch in the dirt and then grounding a two-run single through the right side of the infield to make it 5-2.

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Shohei Ohtani launched his 49th home run, Teoscar Hernandez and Ben Rortvedt contributed two-run doubles in a six-run fifth inning and a classic pitching matchup of Clayton Kershaw against Logan Webb turned into a slugfest as the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers pounded the San Francisco Giants 13-7 on Saturday night.

Kershaw was touched for four runs in three innings and Webb for six runs in four-plus frames in a game that saw the Dodgers (83-65) retain their 2 1/2-game lead over the San Diego Padres atop the National League West, while the Giants (75-73) missed out on an opportunity to move past the New York Mets in the NL wild-card race.

After the Giants countered a Dodgers tally in the top of the inning with four runs in the last of the first, a majority of the night’s fireworks were shot off by the visitors, who totaled 17 hits.

Ohtani’s homer to center field leading off the third was the loudest blow of the evening, a 454-foot bomb that not only was the longest by a Dodger this season but also the longest at Oracle Park in 2025.

Kershaw was pulled after needing 67 pitches to get just nine outs. He allowed five hits and four walks while striking out two.

Webb took a 4-3 lead into the fifth but never got another out, loading the bases on a pair of walks sandwiching a Freddie Freeman single.

Reliever Jose Butto allowed all three baserunners to score and eventually three more runs, with Hernandez’s double giving the Dodgers the lead and Rortvedt’s two-bagger making it 8-4. Mookie Betts’ RBI single increased the advantage to five by inning’s end.

Webb (14-10), who threw 97 pitches, served up 10 hits and two walks. He struck out five.

An RBI double by Jerar Encarnacion and two-run double by Patrick Bailey gave the Giants life at 9-7 in the last of the sixth, but the Dodgers’ bullpen dominated the rest of the game, preventing the hosts from scoring again. Edgardo Henriquez (1-1) pitched a scoreless fourth inning and was credited with his first big-league win.

Miguel Rojas had a two-RBI double as part of a three-run sixth to help Los Angeles put away the fifth win in its last six games.

Hernandez finished with three hits, three RBIs and two runs scored for the Dodgers, whose 13 runs equaled their most since putting up 18 on May 31 against the New York Yankees. Ohtani and Freeman also had three hits; Betts, Rortvedt and Andy Pages all had two apiece; and Ohtani scored three times and Betts twice.

Matt Chapman had two hits and scored twice, and Willy Adames collected two singles for the Giants, who lost for just the fifth time in their last 19 games.

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Manny Machado homered for the second straight game, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jackson Merrill and Bryce Johnson also went deep, and the host San Diego Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 11-3 on Saturday night.

Machado, Tatis, Elias Diaz and Luis Arraez finished with two hits each for San Diego (81-68). Arraez left the game after he was hit with a warmup throw as he jogged onto the field to field his position at the start of the ninth inning.

Dylan Cease (8-11) gave up a run on five hits and one walk and struck out six in six innings for the Padres.

Tyler Freeman doubled twice and singled and Jordan Beck had two hits for Colorado, which has lost 18 of its last 22 games. The Rockies (41-108) need just one win in their last 13 games to avoid tying the 2024 Chicago White Sox (41-121) for the most losses in the modern era.

Colorado took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Freeman doubled to lead off the game and scored on Beck’s two-out single, but the Padres scored in each of the first four innings to take control.

Rockies starter Bradley Blalock loaded the bases in the bottom of the first with a single and two walks, and Ramon Laureano’s sacrifice fly gave San Diego its first run. Tatis hit a two-run homer in the second to put the Padres ahead 3-1. It was his 22nd of the season.

Machado led off the third with his 25th homer, and Merrill hit a solo shot later in the frame, his 12th.

Blalock (1-5) left after allowing five runs on five hits and two walks over three innings.

The Padres continued to pad the advantage in the fourth against Antonio Senzatela, who got one out before yielding two singles wrapped around a walk to load the bases. Machado followed with a two-run single and, one out later, Laureano knocked in two more with a double.

Blaine Crim trimmed the lead with a two-run double in the eighth, but Johnson answered with a two-run shot in the bottom of the inning. It was his first of the season.

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Alek Thomas hit a two-run homer, Blaze Alexander doubled and drove in a pair and the Arizona Diamondbacks outlasted the Minnesota Twins for a 5-2 win in 10 innings on Saturday night in Minneapolis.

Gabriel Moreno also drove in a run for Arizona (74-75), which evened the series at one victory apiece with the rubber match set for Sunday. Geraldo Perdomo finished 2-for-4.

Kody Clemens went 2-for-5 with two RBIs to lead Minnesota (65-83).

Diamondbacks right-hander John Curtiss (3-1) tossed two scoreless innings of relief to earn the victory. He allowed one hit, walked none and struck out two.

Twins right-hander Cole Sands (4-5) gave up three runs (two earned) on two hits in one inning. He took the loss after picking up the victory in the series opener.

The score was tied at 2-all after nine innings.

Arizona opened the 10th with a sacrifice bunt by Perdomo to move designated runner Jorge Barrosa to third base. Corbin Carroll drew an intentional walk two batters later and swiped a base to put runners on second and third with two outs.

Moreno provided the go-ahead RBI with an infield single that scored Barrosa. Moreno hit a ground ball deep into the hole at shortstop and narrowly beat the throw to first.

Adrian Del Castillo walked in the next at-bat, and Alexander took advantage when he hit a two-run double off the wall in right to make it 5-2.

The three-run 10th helped the Diamondbacks avoid a late collapse. They led 2-0 for most of the game before allowing the Twins to score two in the eighth.

Clemens evened the score at 2-all when he laced a two-run single off Taylor Rashi with the bases loaded, scoring Luke Keaschall and Austin Martin.

Arizona grabbed a 2-0 lead in the fourth.

Del Castillo led off the inning with a double to center field. Two batters later, Thomas belted a 440-foot, two-run shot to right field off Minnesota starter Joe Ryan. Ryan, an All-Star this year, pitched four innings and allowed two runs on four hits and two walks with four strikeouts.

Diamondbacks starter Ryne Nelson tossed six scoreless innings, giving up four hits and three walks with four strikeouts.

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